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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better ... shops, which I would come to love. I wonder sometimes what it would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  transgenic newts and frogs that would allow for the study of angiogenesis ... to shop and eat! What next? I definitely plan on continuing the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  organ for us. Here's a picture of the Kresge organ: It was built in ... , and performing for us. I don't think I'd ever actually witnessed someone ... lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  you tell us more about what happens during Orientation? I think I pretty ... holds an event that tells freshmen about different options for their ... contributions for their families). How can a student of extremely limited

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  just begging for some peace. Or for some break. For the sake of us ... with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who ... band-aid of sorts for students, as they got beaten and battered during

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  big numbers, of course, are great; "For Unto Us," "Hallelujah," "The ... ."]Yesterday,[/annotation]after turning in my last assignment for the semester and celebrating my freedom ... — Forget that. There'll be time for that later. It's the first day after the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... guarantees on-campus housing to undergrads for eight semesters, I was under no ... first year. (Some freshmen keep paying for their dorm room while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  then selling it, rather than dumping it into their harbor. I saw X3 last ... Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between the two of those, I feel like the movies are watching us rather than the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice ... one of your French girls in baggy pajamas. Then we eventually slept for ... the 2 hours of sleep. I had wanted to take a break from work for a while

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to ... our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... , has been excited about the coming of the elephants for over a month. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how ... participate in a discussion for me. But for STEM classes, there are often very ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  . Google booked rooms in a really nice hotel for us. At 7am the next morning ... US, from Romania, from Germany. Laying roots for STEM all over the ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  the courtyard. via flickr It's a little more stressful for us ... structures. You can work here in exchange for U.S. dollars or class credits, or ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  shop we weld two pieces of steel together, then clamp one down and slam ... *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind ... ’s door, the room cleaning, the napping…. I could take it all for granted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  then I found the statistics! For example, out of the group of 7 countries ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn ... real-world situations. If a company were to use a smaller diameter for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006